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Spring Newsletter
Salzburg, Napoli, Tokyo and French Bel Canto CD Release!
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Hello friends and welcome to our Summer 2022 Newsletter! I am happy that this sunny time is upon us, and for me it has been spent very well, with study time and resting.
I’ve got a busy season ahead and the next three months will be filled with role and/or house debuts! It’s incredible to be making my debut at the Salzburger Festspiele as Lucia di Lammermoor, followed by my role and house debut at the Teatro San Carlo, as Elvira in I puritani. This second Bellini role of my career is one that I have dreamed of singing for a decade! In late September we head to Tokyo, Japan, for 2 marvelous bel canto concerts, with my good friend Luca Salsi.
Finally, in early October, we are excited to announce the release of my new CD, French bel canto. This album features arias in French by Rossini and Donizetti, all of which are totally unique in their beauty and in their challenges. It was so fun to record this disc, even during the pandemic, with its inherent difficulties, this project was an incredible experience. We can’t wait to share it with you!
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Upcoming Performances
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Lucia di Lammermoor
Salzburger Festspiele
Lucia
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Lisette makes her debut at the Salzburger Festspiele in Lucia di Lammermoor, which is presented for the first time at the Festspiele! She is joined by Benjamin Berenheim and Ludovic Tézier with Daniele Rustoni conducting.
August 25
Großes Festspielhaus
Salzburg, Austria
I Puritani
Company
Elvira
Lisette makes her debut as Elvira in I Puritani at the historic Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy. This concert performance will take place on 4 dates.
September 07, 10, 13, 16
Teatro di San Carlo
Napoli, Italy
 
Concert in Tokyo
Japan Performing Arts Foundation
Soprano
Lisette makes her debut in Asia with the Japan Performing Arts Foundation in Tokyo! She will be giving two concerts full of bel-canto music with Luca Salsi.
September 23, 25
Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
Tokyo, JP
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Features
La traviata recording a critical success
Announcement
BBC Music Magazine - July 2022
Highly acclaimed for her recent performances in La traviata at major opera houses in the US, Britain, Italy and Spain, the Cuban-American soprano Lisette Oropesa has now recorded the work. And what a dazzling interpretation it turns out to be! A lighter-voiced Violetta than many, leaning more towards the lyric than the dramatic, she sings with a consistent, shimmering beauty, effortless legato and an endearing sense of character. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Gramophone Magazine - September 2022
Oropesa represents a break from the Violettas of decades past with her clean vocalism and way of inhabiting the role from within, minus a lot of external emotional signalling. The tragic final scene is conveyed with many feats of shading, achieved as much through vocal technique as emotional inspiration, giving her characterisation as much dignity as desperation.
Interviews
"This is all in preparation for roles that are often extreme sports themselves. For Oropesa, bel canto is "a specific approach to singing and interpreting" that first and foremost requires disciplined practice. But also "a musical taste", for example in the culture of rubato, the many small delays. If it succeeds, then necessity turns into freedom, similar to ballet, the initially artificial becomes an expression of the human. The voice begins to soar, maintaining a haven in the music even in madness."
Lisette chatted with Aleksandra Vancevska on her podcast, Being and Doing. She had a great, wide-ranging chat on creativity, obesity, healthy lifestyle, the voice, and more. So please check it out when you have time, I think a lot of people will find this conversation interesting and a little different than most.
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Reviews
In the midst of all this, Lisette Oropesa offered us a luxurious belcantista sorbet. Her scene of Lucia's madness is one of those that one keeps for the memory: coloratura executed to perfection, interpreted in an exquisite way, without too much salt or too much pepper - very important, that! - and finished with an Eb When it was over, the theater collapsed.
— Ferran Vila i Riera • The Time of the Arts
Lisette Oropesa’s technique is astonishing and she was in absolute command of her beautiful silvery voice and the title role’s demanding coloratura. All her high E flats were hit dead centre and with impressive ease and the mechanics of singing was never on show and Oropesa brought a real sense of character to her dramatically realistic and triumphant portrayal of Lucia. There was a perfect arc from Lucia’s girlish glee and making of a snow angel in Act I to a nuanced, gripping, blood-spattered concluding ‘Mad Scene’ when Oropesa elicited tremendous sympathy for her plight. In short, Oropesa’s Lucia will not easily be surpassed.
— Jim Pritchard • Seen and Heard International
Lisette Oropesa is astounding with ease and mastery in Lucia, leaving absolutely nothing to show through the difficulty of the role. Her peerless technique, her perfectly assured vocals, her luminous highs, her crystalline timbre and her evanescent halftones make her an incomparable Lucia today. She makes the public delirious with each of her interventions
— Claudius Poloni • Concerto Net
Lisette Oropesa, born in New Orleans in 1983, is an absolutely wonderful singer, as you can see at the Munich Opera Festival. There she sings Violetta in Verdi's "La Traviata" in Günter Krämer's production, which is now almost 30 years old. One of the bizarre things about opera is that dying on stage is often the most enchanting moment, and the way Oropesa sings and plays Violetta's dying here is extraordinarily moving. Because she is extraordinarily precise, never does too much, never too little, gives her voice that crucial fragility that makes a truly authentic impression.
Ah, that voice. In the first act she glistens and shines. She is light as a feather, but Oropesa has, firstly, a brilliant technique and, secondly, a wonderful little vibrato that carries her voice over everything, always letting it shine out, while always having a warm, incredibly likeable basic sound. Oropesa is here, at the festival in the first act, highly elegant, dainty, enchanting, charming center of the hustle and bustle that has become somewhat worn out over the years of the production.
— Egbert Tholl • Süddeutsche Zeitung
Who reveals a formidable artistic and interpretative growth is Lisette Oropesa in the role of the protagonist. When we first heard the soprano in this role we had foreseen a further development and we have proof of it: her Violetta is now complete, from the virtuosity of the first act to the lyricism of the second, up to the dramatic song of the III. The interpreter has also grown from an actor's point of view, also managing the stage development of this iconic character very well.
- Francesco Lodola • Ieri Oggi Domaini Opera
At the height was the trio of soloists hired for this special evening. Lisette Oropesa appeared in a fluttering pastel blue dress, perfect for highlighting her beauty and femininity and above all her always elegant attitude, and she flaunted the voice we already know and will never tire of hearing: a crystalline soprano and very clean, but still soft. Fresh from the great success in La Traviata, she proved to be a refined and versatile musician capable of passing naturally from one style to another, from Italian opera of the mid-nineteenth century to the German one of ninety years later, from writing completely different and at times impervious.
- Irina Sorokina • L'ape Musicale
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Reflections
 Lisette teaching the young artists in Salzburg. © SF / Marco Borrelli
This summer I had a chance to coach some magnificent young singers in Salzburg, and each one of them had a beautiful, unique sound, which made me renew my love for this art form even more.
No matter how many times we hear the tunes, a singer’s voice will be a singular experience. Each artist has a sound and communicates a unique message, and I never tire of hearing what every singer has to say.
My work with young singers gives me so much joy, and I truly learn from them.
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